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‘The Proposed Emigrant Dumping Site’; cartoon by Victor Gillam from Judge magazine, March 22, 1890

Whose Freedom?

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on September 2, 2021

Illustration by Molly Crabapple

Racial Metaphors

If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed nothing.

by Nikhil Pal Singh via Dissent on August 30, 2021

The front cover of Kevin Waite's, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."

Desert Plantations

A review of “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."

by Tom Prezelski via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 29, 2021

A cracked picture of Washington crossing the Delaware River.

The Incoherence of American History

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

by Osita Nwanevu via The New Republic on August 11, 2021

An American Flag with opening one of the stripes like a door

The Slippery Matter of ‘Truth’ in Patriotic Education

Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.

by Timothy Messer-Kruse via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 5, 2021

Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.

by Karin Wulf via Aeon on July 15, 2021

An anti-critical race theory rally

To Understand the History Wars, Follow the Paper Trail

The history of racism, slavery and its impacts on American society is essential and appropriate for school history classes.

by James Grossman, Jeremy C. Young via The Hill on July 5, 2021

Kimberlé Crenshaw

The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé Crenshaw

“Wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment.”

by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Jon Wiener via The Nation on July 5, 2021

Illustration of a stick figure on a ladder adding to very tall stacks of paper

Living Memory

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

by Megan Pillow via Guernica on June 23, 2021

Woman with sign protesting textbooks

This Critical Race Theory Panic Is a Chip Off the Old Block

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

by Adam Laats, Gillian Frank via Slate on June 18, 2021

A second grade teacher and her students pledge allegiance to the flag circa 1970.

Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.

by Jarvis R. Givens, Sean Illing via Vox on June 11, 2021

Fist drawn on chalkboard

What Do Conservatives Fear About Critical Race Theory?

In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.

by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on June 10, 2021

Students saying the pledge of allegiance in a classroom

The Fog of History Wars

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

by David W. Blight via The New Yorker on June 9, 2021

UNC president with Eleanor Roosevelt

A Legendary UNC Leader Displayed the Benefit of Academic Freedom — And the Limits

Academic freedom can help universities flourish, while political compromises can hold them back.

by William A. Link via Made By History on May 26, 2021

Tyler Stovall and his book

The History of Freedom Is a History of Whiteness

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

by Tyler Stovall, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on March 17, 2021

Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021

Biden in the Oval Office signing executive actions

Biden Rescinding the 1776 Commission Doesn't End the Fight over History

The 1776 Commission marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down meaningful conversation about racism.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 21, 2021

Land of Hope Book Cover, which has a painting of buildings and boats

An America Where Everyone Meant Well

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

by Jonathan W. Wilson via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on January 9, 2021

Bubbles with numbers of black Georgia school teachers, centered is 1896 when there were 3316.

American History XYZ

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.

by Sasha Frere-Jones via Bookforum on November 9, 2020

Photographic collage of James Baldwin

Bringing It Back to Baldwin

Joel Rhone reviews Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

by Joel Rhone via The Drift on October 21, 2020

Benjamin Tillman statue

American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

by Kali Holloway via The Nation on October 2, 2020

Donald Trump giving a speech under a mural of the Founders.

White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 29, 2020

Drawing of people picking cotton at a plantation

A Few Random Thoughts on Capitalism and Slavery

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.

by James Oakes via The Economic Historian on September 28, 2020

The cover of the textbook, "Heroes of Our America."

"Heroes of Our America": Reading a "Patriotic" History of the United States

This 1952 textbook serves as an example of the "patriotic history" that Donald Trump grew up with and calls for today.

by Alan J. Singer via HNN on September 27, 2020

President Donald Trump speaking at a podium at the National Archives

Revisionist History is an American Political Tradition

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

by Michael D. Hattem via Made By History on September 23, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

Donald Trump in front of Mount Rushmore

Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare

But it’s one historians know all too well.

by L. D. Burnett via Slate on September 18, 2020

How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 17, 2020

The Wages of Whiteness

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

by Hari Kunzru via New York Review of Books on September 3, 2020

Beyond the End of History

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 14, 2020

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